Tim Lines
August 17th 03, 09:52 PM
Eric St. Mary wrote:
> I would like to thank all who offered advice and their bikes for my
> fixie project. I picked up a mid 80's Fuji Del Ray frame set on Ebay for
> $33. I has nice long horizontal dropouts, valite tubing (which I believe
> is triple butted), every braze on imaginable, is already 130mm spaced,
> and is kind of ugly, which is good in my book for a commuter bike.
>
> What size seat post does this frame take?
I've got 3 mid-80's Fujis. I do not know why. 2 have 26.3 seatposts
and the other has something a bit smaller with a soda pop can used as a
shim. I'll bet yours needs a 26.3.
Is the BB threading English?
Yes.
>
> I think I'm going to be able to get a 105 front brake (will this work
> with 700C wheels?)
I'd bet current generation 105 brakes wouldn't reach. I might lose that
bet, though. Do current generation shimano calipers have long enough
bolts to reach through the fork? The old fork wasn't built for the
recessed allen nuts.
> I would like to thank all who offered advice and their bikes for my
> fixie project. I picked up a mid 80's Fuji Del Ray frame set on Ebay for
> $33. I has nice long horizontal dropouts, valite tubing (which I believe
> is triple butted), every braze on imaginable, is already 130mm spaced,
> and is kind of ugly, which is good in my book for a commuter bike.
>
> What size seat post does this frame take?
I've got 3 mid-80's Fujis. I do not know why. 2 have 26.3 seatposts
and the other has something a bit smaller with a soda pop can used as a
shim. I'll bet yours needs a 26.3.
Is the BB threading English?
Yes.
>
> I think I'm going to be able to get a 105 front brake (will this work
> with 700C wheels?)
I'd bet current generation 105 brakes wouldn't reach. I might lose that
bet, though. Do current generation shimano calipers have long enough
bolts to reach through the fork? The old fork wasn't built for the
recessed allen nuts.